Baiju

Baiju (died 1260) was a general of the Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate. He was the general responsible for the conquest of Anatolia in 1243 after the victory in the Battle of Sivas (Kose Dag), and led the advance from Syria to Egypt in 1259. Hulegu Khan had Baiju executed when the Mongol corps fled from the Mamelukes after the Battle of Ain Jalut.

Biography
Bayju Noyon flourished from 1230 to 1260, serving the Mongol general Chormagan in the wars in the Middle East against the Seljuk Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate. In 1241, after Chormagan's death, Baiju became the commander of the Mongol forces in the Middle East, and immediately moved against the Sultanate of Rum, a powerful Seljuk state in Anatolia. In 1243, he defeated Seljuk, Trapezuntine, Georgian, and Latin troops in the Battle of Sivas (Kose Dag), and forced David VI of Georgia to become a vassal of the Mongol Empire. In 1246, he led tumens to raid Syria, which was in the hands of the Ayyubid Empire, meeting more success there than the Mongols had in their invasion of the Abbasid Caliphate from 1238 to 1246.

Baiju was replaced as supreme commander of Mongol forces in 1255 because he failed to extend Mongol power further, as he tolerated the independence of the beyliks of Anatolia and Georgia. However, he ably commander Mongol forces in the conquest of Baghdad in 1258 and the invasion of Syria and Egypt in 1259. However, Baiju was executed after the Mongol rout from the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260.